Never eat a wooden pickle because they leave splinters in your throat.

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I am a bear. I have always been a bear. I believe I have a mental window into an intriguing, violent, humorous, humanistic failure by an entire generation that believed it could change the world with guitars and drugs and almost did.

I used to be a jazz musician, football joke, life-guard, body guard, marine, kept man, dedicated body surfer, football coach, and teacher of dyslexic but brilliant students.

I continue to be a world traveler (80 or so countries), photographer, multi-media creator, published author, in awed wonder of this genration.

My writings always center upon the questions: Who and I? Where am I? what is my relationship to my fellow man and what is my relationship to the universe or whomever one prays to.

My short stories are becoming popular, and I am adding to them. I am adding The Norris Law for Bodies Falling… Enacted After Reading Galileo’s Laws For Falling Bodies. Try a few, you may be amazed.

As of May 5thDanseMacabre is featuring a chapter from one of my novels entitled The Lawless Years. They have chosen a chapter entitled The Effects of Toxic Waste, Used Pampers and General Trash on Grape Soda and The Rain Bows. I hope you go there and give it a try. In the next month I hope to begin posting The Lawless Years.. The “Hero” is Ian Maynard Lawless, who always signs his name I.M.Lawless and he is. His life-long credo has been “If it’s theirs …steal it. if youcan’t steal it…hide it. If it’s too big to hide or break … mutilate it.” Very interesting events slowly change I.M.Lawless’ life. So outrageous changes, you may want to join in helping The Grape Soda and The Rainbows come together to change the world.

Lately I have added the following questions: Why aren't women ruling this planet politically as they do sexually and intellectually? Why do most males dred intimacy more than death or ED?

When someone asks, "Where are you?" answer, "I am between." Example: If you are part of medical science, you are between beating the drums and chanting all night for miracles and beating the labs for miracle drugs. See what I mean?

Birth Place: Baltimore, MD USA

Accomplishments: I am a published author. I have saved ten or so lives. Most of my three thousand or so former students loved me or at least respected me. I married well.

Mind Travels by B. B. RiefnerThis is a collection of short stories about misfits, geniuses and intellectual snobs always seem to find their way to their heavens or hells. Each story is preceded by a companion poem....

The Goatfooted Children: Preface by B. B. RiefnerThe Goat Footed Children chronicles the stories of fourteen individuals who have dyslexia, their struggles and triumphs, their tragedies and successes. It explores a range of possible outcomes from those who succeed with and without intervention to those who continue to struggle or fail....

The Last Horseman by B. B. RiefnerJoin a modern Noah or Don Quixote as he fights his way from Spain in 1936 to the Belgian Congo in 1963. He begins as an idealist mounted on a shaggy Siberian Pony and carrying a sub-machine gun. He ends kicking gold teeth out of the mouths of the innocent dead....

Fox On Ice Skates Excerpt 2 by B. B. RiefnerStreet learns what the Battle of Tibet is, the hard way. He walks away from a multi-million dollar potential marriage and meets the devil at his work place....

A Fox On Ice Skates- Excerpt 1 by B. B. RiefnerJoin Street Norris'slippy glide through a series of dangerous, delightful but never deliberate situations which lead him to eventually grow up....

The Last Horseman Excerpt 2 by B. B. RiefnerThis excerpt introduces the man who will become immortal, George Arnold, the last horseman. Through audio tapes, George explains the US, and more specifically Baltimore, four worlds ago. You are about to encounter a sea of voices trying to explain his immortality. You will find it is even more difficult to accept it....

PoetryMy Four Horsemen by B. B. RiefnerReflecting on strange lives......Clashing With Love: Initial Encounter by B. B. Riefnerthe poem is about remembering a lover, still loved. ...Mind Travels Ten-Two Poems by B. B. RiefnerThe mirror says: You can have memories or acquisitions at the end of your days. Only one is remembered. Facebook is not a memory....Mind Travels Eight by B. B. RiefnerThis crystal ball has eight sides and is not round. Read it with your eyes closed and your mind open. ...Mind Travels Seven by B. B. RiefnerSix poems seeking a mirror either human or otherwise that will tell the truth about those utterly important questions we all need answered. ...Mind Travels Five - Three Poems by B. B. RiefnerMind Travels seeks the cracks through which we fall into either an abyss or a bliss. ...Mind Travels Four by B. B. RiefnerLife is just a bowl of "I wonder if...Why didn't I...Someone should have told me..."...Mind Travels Two- Three Poems by B. B. RiefnerThe past, present and future, not tenses and certainly not perfect. Wisdom seldom comes with age. It arrives at the end of a fist, a kiss, or a dream....Five Poems: Mind Travels One by B. B. RiefnerA collection of five mind travels through three entirely different worlds in just thirty years. ...Mind Travels Three by B. B. RiefnerCircus songs, for some, an annual event. For others, a state of mind. For the very few who SEE, the cosmos. ...Lord of the Manor by B. B. RiefnerA shock of adulthood and intellectual maturity is harsh....Not One Single Regret by B. B. RiefnerLate in life some are forced to drink the bitter vetch. Others sit at a banquet for kings. ...